The people behind the films
Artists
Filmmakers, studios, and musicians behind the films on Lumina Theia. Follow their work beyond the screen.

Studio
DresscodeAI
DresscodeAI is the channel and studio name Laurent Cliquet uses for his AI filmmaking. It makes short films and cinematic scenes in sci-fi, fantasy and post-apocalyptic veins, each built from scratch with current AI tools. Its work includes TODAY, The Screenwriter and Mr Rossi.
The Screenwriter · Today

Artist
Laurent Cliquet
Laurent Cliquet is an art director and designer who makes AI short films under the name DresscodeAI. His shorts borrow from classic genre cinema and pay close attention to camera movement, editing rhythm and sound. The Screenwriter won the Bailey Award at the 2025 AI Film 3 Festival, and his short Mr. Rossi screened in the festival's 2026 program.
The Screenwriter · Today

Artist
Alex Naghavi
Alex Naghavi is a creative director with a background in digital product and brand work who now makes experimental short films with generative tools. She was visual director, AI artist and co-producer on Railbound, and she co-directed Le Drip with Ezra Li, which screened at AI Film 3 in 2026. She won Runway's Gen:48 and has served on the Webby, Awwwards and ADC Awards juries.
Railbound

Artist
Jeff Zavala
Jeff Zavala is the owner, operator and producer behind ZCreative Media in Austin, Texas. He created and directs Crystal Sovereigns, a short-film series about five elemental guardians, and wrote, shot, edited and scored its third chapter himself.
Crystal Sovereigns

Artist
Jonathan Perry
Jonathan Perry is an American filmmaker and screenwriter who founded the production company Muybridge. He wrote and directed Railbound during the first Google Labs Flow Sessions residency, and his earlier film Subnivean was picked up by Amazon Prime Video when he was 17. He spoke about directing at AI Film 3's 2026 festival in Tempe.
Railbound

Artist
Mark Wachholz
Mark Wachholz spent about twenty years writing novels, video games and other stories before turning to AI filmmaking in 2023. Working as Particle Panic, he has made The Cinema That Never Was, Riefenstahl, Céremony, The Interview and A Message for the Butterfly. At AI Film 3 he won Best Drama in 2024 for Riefenstahl and Best AI Documentary in 2025 for The Cinema That Never Was.
The Cinema That Never Was

Artist
MetaPuppet
MetaPuppet is a director and AI filmmaker who serves as Head of Genre at Promise Studios. Eve and Adam began with a single image of someone shooting at the moon, and MetaPuppet built it with Google Veo 3, using Gemini to study the look of 1970s science fiction.
Eve & Adam

Studio
Muybridge
Muybridge is a production company founded by director, screenwriter and producer Jonathan Perry. It released Railbound, made during Google's Flow Sessions residency, and is developing a production called CROOKERY.
Railbound

Artist
Nik Kleverov
Nik Kleverov is a director and the co-founder and chief creative officer of the creative agency Native Foreign. He was one of the first artists given access to OpenAI's Sora, and he went on to direct the AI-animated feature Critterz. Dominant, a personal short about his father, a non-conformist painter in Soviet Russia, won Best Story at AI Film 3's 2024 festival.
Dominant

Studio
Particle Panic
Particle Panic is the name Mark Wachholz releases his AI films under, with the short motto 'pure cinema'. The channel collects his 4K shorts, trailers and video essays, from Copernicus and Riefenstahl to The Cinema That Never Was and The Interview.
The Cinema That Never Was

Artist
Rebekah Wisden
Rebekah Wisden is the actor who plays Iris in Crystal Sovereigns: Iris the Air Sovereign, the chapter of Jeff Zavala's series that won Best AI Experimental Film at the 2025 AI Film 3 Festival.
Crystal Sovereigns

Music
The Lulls In Traffic
The Lulls In Traffic is a collaboration between Aaron Marsh, frontman of the band Copeland, and lyricist Ivan Ives. Their debut album Rabbit in the Snare came out in 2017 with guests including Ceschi and Talib Kweli, and their music scores Nik Kleverov's Dominant.
Dominant

Studio
ZCreative Media
ZCreative Media is an owner-run production studio in Austin, Texas, led by Jeff Zavala. Its work covers video, photography, event coverage, aerial filming and immersive projects such as the Coralverse world. It produces the Crystal Sovereigns film series, whose chapter Iris the Air Sovereign won Best AI Experimental Film at the 2025 AI Film 3 Festival.
Crystal Sovereigns